Brain Matters

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards $4 million in NARSAD Independent Investigator Grants
March 19, 2013

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) has announced approximately $4 million in new research grants. Since 1987, the Foundation...

Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., Brain & Behavior Research Foundation President and CEO
Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D.
March 15, 2013

The Board of Directors of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression or NARSAD), a nonprofit that has funded close to $300 million in mental...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation used generally to treat depression, is now being used to treat schizophrenia symptoms
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
March 14, 2013

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, led by Zafiris J. Daskalakis, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), three-time NARSAD Grantee and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, recently discovered that...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. of Stanford University, Expert on Optogenetics and Depression
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
March 13, 2013

In 2005, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. of Stanford University, used his NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to develop the new technology, ‘optogenetics,’...

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D., Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Expert on Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D.
March 12, 2013

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D. was among a team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden who recently discovered a genetic variant of an enzyme in the brain that...

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